Pilot-lawyer Picks Up Perry Airport Business

He has longish blond hair, a scruffy blond beard and wears faded blue jeans, jogging shoes with no socks and a beige windbreaker. He looks like a sailor.

The view from his third-floor office says otherwise. Blue sky, not blue water, stretches outside his window. Below lie dozens of Cessnas, Beechcrafts and Piper cubs in neat rows at North Perry Airport.

Bond, 30, is a pilot. He also is one of the few lawyers practicing in Pembroke Pines.

``I represent over half the people on the field. Once in a while they want to sue each other. It gets a little touchy,`` he said.

Bond was negotiating with the county, which owns the airport, on behalf of a client in 1983 when he learned of a vacant 900-square-foot office. His office was in Hollywood at the time, but like a handful of other young lawyers, he thought the growing, vibrant community of Pembroke Pines, instead of the more staid Hollywood, was best for a growing law practice.

``Pembroke Pines, Miramar and Davie are three of the largest cities geographically in Broward County,`` he said. ``I am in the middle of the three of them. I decided to go where the market is, instead of opting for convenience.``

Bond, who according to city records is one of only 13 lawyers licensed to practice in Pembroke Pines, is negotiating with the county to build a two- story, 40,000-square-foot office building on the north side of the airport, just west of Broward Community College.

He said he will move his office there, and lease out the rest when the building is completed, hopefully by early 1987.

Bond`s family used to own 50 percent of Six Flags Atlantis. From 1979 to 1982 Bond was in-house counsel and marketing director for the park. In 1980 he ran against state Sen. Tom McPherson, D-Fort Lauderdale, for an assembly seat and in 1982 he opposed Suzanne Gunzburger for a Hollywood City Commission seat and lost both elections.

``They`re not ready for a guy who wears sneakers and no socks,`` he said, mockingly.